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Correct. Such a school is biracial, not diverse--especially when the FARMS rate is <=10%[/quote]

A distinction between "biracial" and "diverse", good grief. Biracial IS diverse.

Do you also consider Whitman to be "lily white" (something I often read on DCUM), even though 1 in 4 Whitman students is not white?

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Diverse (adj.)
(b) of various kinds or forms; multiform.
Source:http://www.dictionary.com/browse/diverse

Biracial != multiracial
therefore, biracial != diverse.

QED.[/quote]

Wrong.  Because there 6% of Wooten is black and 7% is Hispanic so Wooten is far more than biracial. Why don't you tell those students that they need to classify themselves as White or Asian because you've decided that nearly 15% of the school population is "insignificant" according to your narrow definition.[/quote]

Maybe Wooten is diverse, but Wootton isn't. I could restate it as largely biracial. 6% and 7% are barely above the reportable minimum of 5%. These numbers are not at all representative of the diversity of the county as a whole. I remain correct.[/quote]

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